Just because letting go is hard doesn’t mean that it’s not worth it…YOU ARE WORTH IT!!

(Side Note: If holding on to your pain was working for you, wouldn’t you feel better by now?)

Common sense warns us not to hold on to dangerous things, like bombs, explosives, fire, and toxic chemicals… Unfortunately, our emotions do quite the opposite!!

“Instead of letting go of the pain, memories, disappointments, and betrayals, we store them up like armor for a battle...“

Seeking to protect ourselves from future threats of harm, we live behind walls of frustration, resentment, irritability, defensiveness, and anxiety—engulfed in this never-ending cycle… hurting the people who love us the most!!

Oh, the AGONY of holding on to hurts!!

Letting Go is about TAKING YOUR POWER BACK!!

Letting Go is about CHANGING the MINDSETS that have KEPT YOU STUCK.

Letting Go is about EMBRACING the FREEDOM you have MAKE NEW, DIFFERENT, & BETTER CHOICES.

Are you ready now to Let Go? (I sure hope so 😊)

Life Coaching Tip #2: Refuse to Continue Blaming Others for where You are in Life Today!

Ouch…That hurts!

Blaming others KEEPS THEM IN POWER… It says, “I have NO CONTROL over my life, my choices, my future…”

(This keeps you in the position of a helpless VICTIM)

Letting Go means that I choose to say:

“Yes, that did hurt me… Yes, I do wish that it never happened… Yes, they were wrong for doing that to me…

BUT…I HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE HOW I DEAL WITH THE PAIN OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!!”

“I cannot control what happened to me, but I CAN CONTROL how I CHOOSE to DEAL WITH IT!!”

“I will heal from my pain in HEALTHY WAYS—WAYS that HELP ME to MOVE FORWARD!”

**Please Like Us on FB & SHARE HOW THIS SERIES IS HELPING YOU BY POSTING ON OUR FB Page: www.facebook.com/APlace4MeLLC​In Part III of this series, we’ll see what AMAZING THINGS begin to happen AFTER we Let Go… Can’t wait ​ 😊

​You know, that thing you’ve been holding on to…that heartache… that heartbreak you felt when they……….

(My story)It’s been almost 20 years since I stood in my cap and gown for my graduation from Bonnabel High School in Kenner, LA…

​I made it!!

Robbed of my childhood by alcoholism with my father and crack cocaine with my mother, taken from my parents at age 11 by child protection, and placed in the loving arms of my grandmother… Whew!!

It was a rough start, but there I was…

Full of excitement about heading to Lafayette, LA for college… full of sadness, disappointment, and hurt because my mother did not show up for my big day.

Unfortunately, this was just one of many more disappointments to come as I faced other “big days,” challenges, setbacks, obstacles, and hardships without the love and support of my mother or father.

THERE IS NO PAIN LIKE THE PAIN OF REJECTION… NO PAIN LIKE THE PAIN OF BEING ABANDONED!!

I am convinced that kind of pain is what sends SO MANY PEOPLE into unhealthy relationships with other people, food, sex, drugs, gambling, and ultimately…UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEMSELVES!!

Have YOU ever been down this road? If so, let me assure you, THERE IS HELP, THERE IS HOPE, & THERE IS A WAY OUT of this endless cycle of self-inflicted wounds.

Life Coaching Tip #1: Take Responsibility for Your Own Healing Journey!

I’m sorry if this sounds insensitive, but take it from me…NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNTIL YOU DECIDE to stop looking for everyone else to understand you… comfort you… fix you… heal you…

IT’S UP TO YOU NOW!!

I want you to take a good hard look in the mirror and say, “ENOUGH!!”

“I will NOT WASTE another day…”

“I will NOT GIVE UP another week, month, or year of my life LIVING IN YESTERDAY!!”

“I will NOT spend any more time FANTASIZING BOUT WHAT USED TO BE or WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN…”

“TODAY I CHOOSE to ACCEPT that I CANNOT CHANGE WHAT HAPPENED to me or how I have chosen to deal with it in the past.” BUT “I have EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE what I do about it TODAY, TOMORROW, & FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!”

Whew!!

Well… Did you like the sound of that??

CONGRATULATIONS! If you’ve made it this far, you’re off to a Great Start in Letting Go & Letting God…

I believe that GREAT THINGS ARE IN STORE FOR YOU this Year!!

In Part II of this series, we’ll take that next step towards Letting Go… I hope you’reready 😊